There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.

Every one complains of a poor memory, no one of a weak judgment.

We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.

Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.